Constantly have to encourage speech

My little boy is 3 and is a gestalt learner. He has now got a wide range of speech and can put three word sentences together but he always chooses to go back to 1 word. Eg 'Box' but he can say 'i want the box'. We have to encourage him every time he speaks to use more words. I would say 'what do you want' and then he would say 'i want the box'.
Not sure if it's now laziness or if I should ignore him until he expands on what he wants. I don't want him to regress. Any advice?

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I'm not an expert, I'm still learning for my son, but If your son is a Gestalt Language Processor do you know roughly what stage in the NLA he is mostly at?
If "I want the box" was previously a Gestalt, could he be starting to break the Gestalt up into their individual words? I think this is stage 3 NLA. Again I'm no expert, however bohospeechie on Instagram is a GLP expert, and very frequently does "ask me anything" sessions within her stories where she posts her response.

Yes I believe he is stage 3, possibly starting to move into stage 4. Although I'm still not convinced he is 100% gestalt learner as he knew lots of single words and started to combine 2 words before the scripting started.

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